The watchman was so frightened by the sudden gloomy voice next to his ears that he collapsed to the ground.
His body struggled back, but the muddy embroidered shoes did not move, but slowly moved forward.
He took a closer look and saw that the feet on the embroidered shoes were bloody and bloody, revealing the white bones, which was extremely terrifying.
The watchman was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and did not dare to raise his head.
After a while, he heard no movement around him, raised his head, and suddenly found a figure standing in front of him.
Wearing a red phoenix robe and a red hijab that was as red as blood, a woman with a slender figure unique to women was standing a few meters away from him.
The bride in red!
This outfit was so distinctive even in the dark night. At the same time, the woman's laughter was sharp and weird.
The man who was sleeping collapsed on the ground, his legs kept shaking, and he shouted slightly tremblingly, "Who are you? Who are you?"
The bride with the red hijab took two steps forward and stood next to the watchman. The heart-shaking voice came from under the red hijab again.
"Officer! Come with me quickly!"
"Ah! Where...are you going...?"
"Of course we are going to the place where we are getting married. Tonight is our big day." The woman bent down and stretched out her slender, pale, bloodless arms.
"Don't come here, don't come here!" The watchman knew that there was no way back. He turned around and crawled back. At this time, half of his body was already submerged in the dark alley. He immediately shouted loudly for help. But this sound floated in the night sky for a long time, but it had no effect.
He looked back and found that the bride in red on the street had disappeared.
When the watchman saw this, he immediately stood up hard and tried to run out of the street. His feet kept shaking, "Help! Help!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the bride's figure appeared next to him again. She grabbed the watchman's arm with her slender hands and led him towards the dark alley.
"Officer! Don't miss this good time!"
The watchman's consciousness was normal and he wanted to escape from this place as soon as possible, but his body was as if possessed and he could not control it. He walked into the dark alley with the bride in phoenix robe.
Li Huaiyun came to Tiehua Pavilion and asked the guards outside to inform Liu Pingzhong. Soon, someone came out and led him to the hall.
In the lobby of Tie Hua Pavilion, Liu Pingzhong was standing in front of a large table, looking through the files, his brows furrowed deeply. He had been following this case for a long time, but he had not found any useful clues.
Late at night, they sent people to stare at the rooftops of the street where the crime occurred for a long time, but found nothing. They even sent people to pretend to be monster hunters, but everything was unusually calm.
The monster seems to be very scheming. As long as the monster catcher monitors it, it will not appear.
According to his previous assumptions, this case should be easy to handle. The street is in Kyoto, and the demon hunters of Tie Hua Pavilion are strictly guarding the place.
But that's the case, but the monster's ability is unknown. This time it was able to evade the search of the monster catcher, even pretending to fish, so all this seemed quite depressing.
When someone reported that Li Huaiyun came to Tiehua Pavilion to ask for a meeting, the gloom on his face was swept away. This guy came to help, that's it! However, wasn’t he seriously injured and unconscious? Why did it suddenly recover?
These days, he was so distracted by this case that he didn't even think about food or drink. He didn't even pay for the food at home. The family members complained about it for a long time and felt very uneasy! Now, there is finally a chance to solve it.
"Master Liu!" Li Huaiyun stepped forward and saluted with clasped fists. He stood there until Liu Pingzhong asked him to take a seat quickly, and then he sat down.
Hope arose in Liu Ping's heart, "I've always seen you busy! You couldn't take any time, and then you were seriously injured and fell into coma, which worried me to death."
He pointed at Li Huaiyun, "Are you well now?"
"It's okay! Just get more rest!"
"Then I'm relieved!" Liu Pingzhong breathed a sigh of relief and pointed at the file, "This case is quite difficult. Otherwise, I wouldn't want to bother you. It's hard to accept that no clues can be found for so many days. ”
Li Huaiyun frowned and asked, "Can't find any clues?"
"Yes!" Lieutenant General Liu Ping pushed the file in front of him to Li Huaiyun. "I went to the crime scene, squatted there, and pretended to be a watchman, but all failed. I had no choice but to ask the Sikyong to let you check it. Let’s take a case.”
Li Huaiyun picked up the file and looked at the detailed information written on it.
"No one would have thought that there was no clue about a monster that haunted the night. We didn't even see the appearance of the monster. We searched the entire area around the street and found nothing."
Liu Pingzhong gently tapped the table, "I believe that with your help, this case will be solved smoothly."
Li Huaiyun nodded in agreement. Judging from this description, this case is indeed very strange.
Any monster that causes trouble will leave specific traces, unless, as mentioned before, there is something to shield the monster, a jade sculpture! This case is also quite consistent.
Li Huaiyun quickly turned over the scroll. What was said in it was very different from what he had understood before.
In this file, there are probably more than ten cases recorded, and the number of deaths is about eighty-nine, of which the number of people who died was at least eighty-ninety percent.
This monster targets people who work on the clock, which also shows that the time when the monster appears may be within a fixed period of time. These times are exactly when the people who work on the watch come to this street.
According to what other people know, there is still something puzzling. There were no wounds on these corpses. Only some incense burner ashes were found in their noses. They obviously passed by a place where incense was being burned, but the street was within a radius of ten meters. There are no temples or ancestral halls in Duoli.
Where did the ashes of the incense burner be inhaled? It was found in the noses of all dead people.
"Has anyone seen this monster?"
"Yes! I met one during the night, and he narrowly escaped death."
Li Huaiyun asked quickly, "Then there is no confession about the watchman in this file?"
Liu Pingzhong explained, "After experiencing that, the man's mental state became unstable and he often went crazy. Therefore, his confession was never recorded."
"The file says that the monster looks like a monster wearing a red phoenix robe and a red hijab. Who said that?" Li Huaiyun was very puzzled.
"Yes, we only record these appearance aspects, but there is also a rumor in it,"
"What's the rumor?"
"Several brides have disappeared in the area there. After a while, some brides will be brought back. However, what they bring back is a cold corpse! More than half of the body is rotten and covered with mud."
"After that, everything was peaceful for several years. But recently, something like this happened again, which made people panic. That's why the Demon Slayer Division went to investigate, but there has been no progress!"
Li Huaiyun thought that this case was indeed quite difficult. The clues were basically useless. It seemed that he had to start from the corpse.
"Where are the bodies of the deceased now!"
"At the county government office!"
"Since it was a monster causing trouble, why did you leave the body in the county government office!"
"It's full!" Liu Pingzhong also looked a little helpless,
Li Huaiyun looked puzzled, "Is it full?"
Liu Pingzhong explained, "In recent days, cases of monsters causing trouble have occurred frequently, and more and more people have died. The Demon Slaying Department is currently short of manpower, and cases are processed slowly, so there are fewer places to store corpses. Even They need to occupy the county government office."
"These monsters are really hateful. They attack the common people and make them panic. Because of their own safety, they are dissatisfied with the Great Zhou. If this continues, the foundation of the people of the Great Zhou will become more and more unstable."
Dazhou is going to die!
Li Huaiyun was a little worried. These monsters actually knew how to use this method to attack Da Zhou, unlike before! .
"Are you going to do an autopsy?"
"Yes, I want to see the cause of death of those deceased, so that I can determine what the monster wanted."
Liu Pingzhong said, "We did not find the cause of death in the autopsy."
"Was it verified from the outside of the body?"
"Yes!"
"That's why we need to cut open the body and examine the underlying cause of death!"
There has always been a question in the Liu Ping Center, and today I finally have the opportunity to get the answer, "Good luck! I have always had a question, since it is a monster, why is it necessary to conduct such a cumbersome autopsy or even open the body."
"Monsters killing humans are different from ordinary murders. Their methods are cruel and weird. This also determines how we can get clues from the corpses, determine the methods of death, and then look for other remaining clues around the scene. In this way, we can To deduce what the monster’s purpose is, or whether it simply wants to harm people, we can also find some of the monster’s characteristics and physical characteristics from the wounds and inside the corpse.”
"The more we understand, the easier it will be for us to find the right direction to deal with this monster."
Liu Pingzhong clapped his hands gently and agreed very much with what he said, "You are indeed extraordinary. You have such ability and experience. No wonder the case can be handled with ease in your hands!"
"Are you really not interested in coming to Iron Painting Pavilion? Here, I promise to give you a higher status than in Jiange. D-level monster catching ability is enough to reach the first level. Even the deputy helmsman of Iron Painting Pavilion will let you It’s not an exaggeration to come here.”
"Ah! Thank you so much, Master Liu, for your appreciation. Personally, I don't like it. It's enough if I can contribute to the Demon Slayer Division!"
"You really don't care about that?"
"It's just a false name!" Li Huaiyun said humbly. He actually understood in his heart that these positions were of no use to him now. It would be better to give him money.
I am too influenced by my aunt, why am I always thinking about money?
Liu Pingzhong sighed, "It seems there is still no way to bring you to Iron Painting Pavilion! Maybe...!"
Li Huaiyun cupped his fists and saluted, "I'd better ask Master Liu to take me to the place where the body is stored. Isn't it better to discuss everything after the case is understood?"
Liu Pingzhong knew that his purpose seemed a bit obvious at this moment, so he said no more.
He took Li Huaiyun to the county government office and walked towards the inner room where the corpse was placed.
For Li Huaiyun, the county government was a place he was familiar with, because when he was imprisoned before, he was just a little monster hunter.
Things are quite different now. He and the princess have solved cases together, and he still has a handwritten letter from the emperor. He has investigated major cases in the palace, and the Sikyong is quite optimistic about him.
With these status blessings, if the magistrate of this county government dares to interfere, he may not even know how he died.
He wished that the county magistrate would jump out and slap him in the face, but it was already early in the morning, and the government office, except for patrol guards, had already gone home to sleep.
Liu Pingzhong took Li Huaiyun to the morgue on the side of the government office. They held lanterns and walked into the morgue almost at the same time.
